Saturday, December 20, 2014

Dear Readers,
the days off are coming nearer. The weather is more like in autumn: Clouded, windy and rainy.
I'm pretty sure that we will miss again a white Christmas. That is also one of the reason why I do not get in a kind of Christmas mood. On Friday evening my wife and I went to cinema and watched The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. I must say the film delivered exactly what has been promised in the title - a battle. We have not been disappointed.

ENJOY READING ....

Edi's Guidepost

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the horse's mouth by
Lighthouse keeper ediFanoB

Quotes
The member of the
house of quotes and a quote himself
the Keeper
of the minutes (
we call him Kotm)
fished for you

German proverbs, sayings
and idiomsQuote related to maintenance

The Lighthouse
Eleven days to go until the end of 2014. Last week I finished two of the five books I want to read until the end of the year and I continued reading two of them. Furthermore I spent as much time as possible for reading. cI surprised myself. I finished three books!! That means the 70 books mark is in reach. I can't believe it.

I finished

- The Lost World (digital) [Kindle ASIN: B004UJDLJE] by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I wrote on GOODREADS:"First of all one should not forget that this novel has been released for the first time in 1912!
That means the mentioned Richard Burton is not the actor (1925 -1984)
I loved it. The style is timeless. It is more than just an adventurer. You learn something about women, history, press and how scientists cope with each other."

- 172 pages in the Emperor of Thorns (pb, August 2013) [ISBN-13: 978-0007439058] by Mark Lawrence,

Enjoy your weekend ....

Books

Dear readers, I'm the one to tell you
about books - only books?
What about novellas and other
stuff? My name is Bona.
I scour shelves, shops
and the net for books. If you call
me a book whore I
would not gainsay you. But be aware I
have my own, sometimes elusive
taste.New books on my shelf/reader or when one book leads to another

Sometimes it happens that a copy of a book arrive a lot earlier than expected. That is exactly what happened with my digital copy of The Invisible Library (digital, December 2014 [Kindle ASIN: B00M44051E] by Genevieve Cogman.

"The first installment of an adventure featuring stolen books, secret agents and forbidden societies - think Doctor Who with librarian spies!

Irene must be at the top of her game or she'll be off the case - permanently...

Irene is a professional spy for the mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. And along with her enigmatic assistant Kai, she's posted to an alternative London. Their mission - to retrieve a dangerous book. But when they arrive, it's already been stolen. London's underground factions seem prepared to fight to the very death to find her book.

Adding to the jeopardy, this world is chaos-infested - the laws of nature bent to allow supernatural creatures and unpredictable magic. Irene's new assistant is also hiding secrets of his own.
Soon, she's up to her eyebrows in a heady mix of danger, clues and secret societies. Yet failure is not an option - the nature of reality itself is at stake." [Source]

I was hooked by the description. Stolen books, hidden libraries, forbidden societies and secret agents in alternate London.

No more today, see you next week ......

Blogosphere

Hey,
I'm Bona Fide. I just
came back from my last foray through the
blogosphere. What can you
expect from me? I tell you: Everything
from Art to Fart as long as there
is any faint connection to books. And
here is some honey from the
beehive blogosphere...

Hey, it's me Fide.
I'm a remote control professional.
I'm that fast that I can
watch two movies at the same time.

My wife and I like actor Johnny Depp who will return to cinema in 2015 as the art dealer and part time rogue Charlie Mortdecai in Mortdecai.. The trailer give you a first impression what to expect in this action comedy movie.

That's all for today. See you next
time....

QuotesI
'm the Keeper of
the minutes. But I don't mind when
you call me Kotm. No, no. I
don't explain to you how to pronounce.

For me it seems that people do not like tasks whenever the term "maintenance" comes into play. The following quote shows that this is nothing new ...............

"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

4 comments:

I went to cinema too to watch The Hobbit, and I had a little disappointment. I enjoyed the movie very much, but it was totaly unnecesarry. The atmosphere of the world of Middle-Earth competelly missing to me.

I thought the final Hobbit was a great way to end the series. Bittersweet, also because it means no more Middle Earth movies.What a shame they dismantled the Great Eastern!And have the Lost World on my iPad and look forward to reading it.